I've always thought that I'd like to get in a time capsule and go back in time 500 years and see what the people who lived in Barataria bay did to survive...to see how they hunted and fished, how they cooked and ate, how they moved around the marsh etc. I lived out in the marsh east of Golden Meadow for around six or seven years on a quarter boat and later at a camp when I was a fish biologist. One time, dredging oysters for sampling, I pulled up the wooden blade of a paddle with a piece of the shaft still attatched. It was long, pointy and narrow...almost like a spear. I was not sure why it was made like that. It didn't seem functional for the open water, and then I realized that the brackish water I was in was probably very fresh (bayou l'ours, south of Bay Cafe and Lafitte) and swampy with water choked with vegetation. The bottom was probably sandy instead of mush and the paddle shape started to make more sense. Aquatic plants would then slip right off the paddle as you stroked. Anyway right then and there, I wanted to go back to that very spot in a time machine and see how the person who made and used that paddle lived.
Id go to a place where everyone was equal as a person. other than that Australia is my final destination. Id go hunting, fishing, and diving everyday.
